Would the US Supreme Court be influential?

Would the US Supreme Court be influential?

Posted Oct 21, 2003 17:47 UTC (Tue) by brlewis (guest, #12182)
Parent article: Time for another Europatent push

One party that has spoken up against software patents is the US Supreme Court. They have always ruled software patents illegal. Their latest ruling is from 1981, but it also affirms that software is not patentable. Only because of contradictory lower court rulings does the US have legal software patents at all. Would an abridged form of the 1981 decision be useful in the European efforts? I've been thinking of putting such a thing together for a while, but haven't gotten to it yet.

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